Top 19 We Live In A Selfish World Quotes
#1. Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.
Brian D. McLaren
#2. When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish. We want to build our own little nests, our own cocoons, so that we can live by ourselves in a secure way.
Chogyam Trungpa
#3. About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.
Jack Getze
#4. It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.
Libba Bray
#5. When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.
Jon Krakauer
#6. It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.
Jeremy Jackson
#7. Viciousness is part of the world we live in, some of us choose to ignore it with the rationalisation of wanting only positivity to flow our way. How selfish we have become! That the pain of others has become a hindrance to the fulfilment of our positive selves.
Aysha Taryam
#8. I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
Holly Near
#10. We don't live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.
Billy Graham
#11. Will you live an empty and bitter life, a selfish and profane life, because something precious was denied you? Will you waste every chance for honor and happiness given you in this world simply because you have been thwarted?
Anne Rice
#12. It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
Martin Luther
#13. I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives.
Matthieu Ricard
#14. If nobody will help you, do it alone! There is no 'i' in team, but there is '1' in WIN!
Michael Jordan
#15. Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.
Katrina Kenison
#16. I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
Javier Bardem
#17. Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
Gayle Lynds
#18. They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys. It's worked for over 200 years, and Hell, we're not using it anymore.
Jay Leno
#19. Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.
Swami Vivekananda
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